Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 25.02.11 13:35, Adam Spragg (a...@spra.gg) wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=80758717a6359cbe6048f43a17c 2b53a3ca8c2fa

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:04, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 25.02.11 13:35, Adam Spragg (a...@spra.gg) wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Commit

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:18:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:04, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: Hmmm ... AFAIK we do.  If things do not work, then it has to be fixed as we have users/customers around definitely use this feature. I doubt anybody will be

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 07.03.11 16:04, Dr. Werner Fink (wer...@suse.de) wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Fri, 25.02.11 13:35, Adam Spragg (a...@spra.gg) wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Commit

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:44, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: Those customers have payed for support including this feature and some of them exactly for this feature.  I'm not going to ignore this hard requirement for

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 07.03.11 16:44, Dr. Werner Fink (wer...@suse.de) wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:18:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:04, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: Hmmm ... AFAIK we do.  If things do not work, then it has to be fixed as we have

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 17:14, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 16:44, Dr. Werner Fink wer...@suse.de wrote: Those customers have payed for support including this feature and some of them exactly for

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 07.03.11 17:14, Dr. Werner Fink (wer...@suse.de) wrote: It has to be possible to fulfill FHS not only in theory but in practice.  That is that if an network interface has to up for the NFS share /usr then systemd should support this. The 1000ths time: it has nothing to do

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Lennart Poettering Hi, | But it's a promise you are making there that you cannot keep. If you | want to support /usr on a separate partition then you'd need to do all | the work and move the PCI and USB databases to /, move libatasmart, | fix udisks, fix D-Bus and so on. I leave that to

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 03.03.11 17:58, Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) wrote: ]] Lennart Poettering | To boot a system, enough must be present on the root partition to | mount other filesystems. This includes utilities,

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.03.11 19:42, Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) wrote: ]] Tomasz Torcz | I don't get it. What during the boot (before /usr is mounted) require pci.db, | usb ids, why udisks would be started? udev rules that reference the name rather than the USB/PCI vendor or product ID is

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.03.11 19:21, Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) wrote: But it's a promise you are making there that you cannot keep. If you want to support /usr on a separate partition then you'd need to do all the work and move the PCI and USB databases to /, move libatasmart, fix udisks,

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:39:03PM -0300, Pablo Hess wrote: Not supporting a separate /usr would be a major setback for systemd, IMO. Separate /usr has nothing to do with systemd. It just the way current distribution work. Systemd is just a messenger, don't shot it because of friendly

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.03.11 17:39, Pablo Hess (natunobi...@gentoobr.org) wrote: Would it work better if /usr was an automounted target? That would probably blow up in your face, since a lot of programs used during early boot end up accessing /usr and would stay stuck Aren't /usr/bin and

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-03-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:51:52PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Why? systemd just warns you. systemd itself works fine with sperate /usr. It's just a statement on the general ecosystem, a statement of fact on the status quo. systemd is just the messenger. Don't shoot the messenger. If

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.02.11 13:35, Adam Spragg (a...@spra.gg) wrote: On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=80758717a6359cbe6048f43a17c 2b53a3ca8c2fa declared separate /usr unsupported. What is really the reason for it? This

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.02.11 16:00, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidj...@gmail.com) wrote: Commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=80758717a6359cbe6048f43a17c2b53a3ca8c2fa declared separate /usr unsupported. What is really the reason for it? It's just acknowledgment of the status quo. And most

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user that setups like this will break. End of story. Is this flagged for the Fedora 15 release notes?

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Adam Spragg
On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=80758717a6359cbe6048f43a17c 2b53a3ca8c2fa declared separate /usr unsupported. What is really the reason for it? This does seem odd. Might I also point out... From

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 01:35:14PM +, Adam Spragg wrote: Are there any bug reports that lead to this decision? No idea, but given that there are probably a fair few systems out there which currently have a separate /usr, I predict quite a few bug reports because of this change...

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user that setups like this will break. End of story.

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers (kay.siev...@vrfy.org) said: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user that setups like this will break. End of story. Is this flagged for the Fedora 15 release notes? Speaking as a

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 20:12, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Kay Sievers (kay.siev...@vrfy.org) said: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user that setups like this will break. End of

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Biebl
2011/2/25 Kay Sievers kay.siev...@vrfy.org: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 20:12, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Kay Sievers (kay.siev...@vrfy.org) said: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a warning to the user

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 25.02.11 13:09, Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) said: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Well, it hasn't been working correctly in ages. It's really not new policy we came up with here. It's just a

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: really no good reason to split it off anyway. Folks who want to do ro /usr are aiming too low, they should go for ro /. As I noted on the fedora-devel list, that's actually a functional reason for wanting a separate /usr: It'd

Re: [systemd-devel] /usr on separate file system

2011-02-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:37:47PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Is this flagged for the Fedora 15 release notes? Why would it? It's just a statement of fact, as a warning. Thinks like Because to my knowledge it's never been said before, and if the project wants to draw a line in the sand